Seth Schoen

Schoen joined the EFF in 2001 and became its technical voice whenever the lawyers needed someone who had actually read the spec. In 2003 he wrote about Trusted Computing and proposed "owner override": if a machine is going to vouch for its own state to third parties, its owner should be allowed to lie on their own behalf. In 2005 an EFF effort he led decoded the faint yellow dots some colour laser printers scatter over every page — the machine identification code, carrying a serial number and a timestamp.

In 2008 he co-authored the cold boot attack paper with Alex Halderman and Ed Felten: chilled memory chips hold their contents long enough for disk-encryption keys to be read back out. He later worked on Let's Encrypt in its early days.